kiali-delete

name	kiali-delete
description	Delete Kiali, Bookinfo, and Istio from Minikube. Use when the user says "delete kiali", "cleanup kiali", "teardown kiali", or similar.

Delete Kiali Development Environment

Clean up the Kiali development environment from Minikube by removing all deployed resources.

All commands below assume they are run from the parent directory where the kiali repository is located (e.g. kiali_sources/).

Step 1: Stop Running Kiali Processes

pkill -f run-kiali.sh

Step 2: Delete the Bookinfo Demo

kubectl delete -f $(ls -t kiali/_output/istio-*/samples/addons/extras/zipkin.yaml | head -1) 2>/dev/null || true
kubectl delete namespace bookinfo 2>/dev/null || true

Step 3: Delete Kiali

kubectl delete -f $(ls -t kiali/_output/istio-*/samples/addons/kiali.yaml | head -1) 2>/dev/null || true

Step 4: Uninstall Istio

ISTIOCTL=$(ls -t kiali/_output/istio-*/bin/istioctl | head -1)
$ISTIOCTL uninstall --purge -y
kubectl delete namespace istio-system

Step 5 (Optional): Delete the Minikube Cluster

If the user wants to remove the entire Minikube cluster:

minikube delete